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I am honored to be nominated to run for the Vestry. I have attended St. Luke’s 7:45 service for 2 years and have found it to be a wonderful and life-giving home church. I spent 17 years with the Diocese of Utah as the Bishop’s Communications Director and attended virtually all Episcopal Churches in Utah as a wonderful part of my job. Now retired from the Diocese, it is great to be part of a church in my Park City community… yes, I am home!  I believe my service to the Diocese and to three bishops would be helpful to our relationship with the larger Utah church and to our participation in the diocesan government. I have been on the planning committees of all our diocesan conventions from 2008 to 2024 and worked with the wider “national” church at five General Conventions and at various national projects under the Presiding Bishop’s staff including filming and producing videos for the return of the Episcopal Church to Cuba, podcasts with and for the church’s government affairs office in Washington, and videos about the church in Israel as well as designing and producing the wider church’s original Title IV website for ecclesiastic conduct. I also produced and wrote videos about our indigenous ministries with the Utes, our diocesan history, and other diocesan-wide subjects. 

I believe I can also assist St. Luke’s with public relations, as I have been a television reporter for 56 years and taught PR and reporting at the U of U for 30 years (now emeritus). For 7 years, I reported on TV as a financial correspondent for CNBC. Of course, financial analysis is a vital part of the vestry service.  I also have vestry experience, having served on the vestry of the Cathedral Church of St. Mark and a Los Angeles church. I was also Junior and Senior Warden of that California church.  I’ve been a life-long Episcopalian.

I am married to Shauna (whom I met at St. Luke’s) and live in Park City. I thank you, and God-willing, I hope to serve with this wonderful group of people who make up the Vestry.